Pension Reform

PSBA Pension Study Committee Report PDF (September 2009)
The PSBA Executive Board created an ad hoc Pension Study Committee to examine the rising
cost of the Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) and to formulate policy
recommendations for the board’s consideration.

Pension Projections
The following chart provides pension cost projections for every school entity in Pennsylvania for 2012-13 as provided by PSERS.

Pension Crisis Webconference
The PowerPoint slides used in the live Web conferences can be downloaded below.

• Pension Crisis PowerPoint
• Contribution rates history (graph)
  • History of employer contribution rates as compared to normal costs -- the amount needed from school employers to fund the benefits earned by active members for that year
  • Employer contribution rates, projected increases circled
• Addressing the rhetoric against PSBA’s plan for long-
  term pension reform
• Talking points on PSBA's pension hybrid legislation
• Sample pension resolution

PSBA Pension Proposal, HB 2135

• Press Release: PSBA Earns Legislative Sponsors for PSERS Reform Proposal
• Comments, Frederick E. Botterbusch, PSBA president
• Comments, Pamela J. Markle, PSBA past president
• PSBA's Pension Reform Bill, HB 2135
• Watch the press conference video (or see on PSBA's Youtube)
• Charts
  • PSERS contribution rates 1955-2010
  • History of PSERS' contribution rate as percentage of payroll
  • Total employer contribution rate projections
  • Comparison of PA hybrid plan with other states

• Testimony on Public Pension Issues (Dec. 16, 2009)
  Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director; and Timothy M. Allwein, assistant executive director for Governmental Relations
• Background information on the Pension Study Committee Report
  • Summary of recommendations (updated Dec. 2009)
• Understanding and overcoming the impending PSERS crisis (School Leader News, part 1)
• School pension increases: The storm on the horizon (School Leader News, part 2)
• Q&A: The pension increase, HB 2135, PSERS
• Sample Letter: Cosponsorship of PSBA hybrid pension legislation ( Word)
• OP-ED: School Boards Association has solution for pension crisis (Dec. 18, 2009)
• 'Goodbye gold watch,' PSBA Bulletin, December 2007

Join the discussion on PSBA's blogsite: LeadingPAschools

See Education News for pension reform-related articles posted on other news outlets statewide.